Chapter 8:
Not Getting Any Better
Joey's Story (Partly Lindsey's)
Oh, this is just GREAT! Me and Lindsey are sitting here together, all tied up by the couch, and NOW the power fuse has been shut off! Just GREAT! We don't know where Slappy is either! All I know is that he went after Kyle somewhere upstairs, but that's about it. Lucky for us though, that when Slappy left the room, all of Lindsey's dolls "died" or something like that.
Me: Hey Linds, your dolls died -- or something like that.
Lindsey: (not sure) I guess that's good...
We both started to wiggle around.
Me: You're the one whose gonna have to get out this!
Lindsey: Why me?!
Me: Because you're small and that you can wiggle out of ropes or blankets better than I can! Now come on, you have to try!
Lindsey started to wiggle her way out of the blanket/ ropes. It took her awhile, but I can see that she's finally coming loose.
Lindsey: I'm almost out...
Me: Try to hurry up! I don't want that dummy to come back to us!
Some odd seconds later, Lindsey came loose. She threw the blanket onto the couch and helped me out of mine. When I was loose enough to help myself, I got up and rolled the blanket into a little ball.
Lindsey: (confused) What're you going to do with that?
Me: I think I have an idea on how to get rid of Slappy -- from Kyle's plan, of course.
Lindsey: So what's the plan than?
Me: I'm not exactly sure yet... it depends on what situation we're in...
I looked around the living room and than at Lindsey again.
Me: Did Kyle take her flashlight?
Lindsey: I think she dropped it somewhere.
Me: Uh! We don't have time to search for it, we need a flashlight now, so I can go to the shed and turn the power back on.
Lindsey: I think I have one! In my bedroom!
Me: Okay, lets go...
I grabbed Lindsey's hand (cootie city, right there!) and we both walked carefully to the stairs and up them to the family room. We looked around the room to make sure the coast was clear of Slappy. When everything looked okay, we walked over to Lindsey's room, where I let go of her hand.
Me: I'll just stand guard here while you get your flashlight.
Lindsey: I think I have two, I'll go check.
Than Lindsey went into her bedroom. I didn't have to wait long before she called back to me from her room.
Lindsey: (happily) Joey! I found my flashlights! I found -- (screaming) AAAAAAAAHH!!
I ran into her room to see what was wrong.
Me: (sarcastic) You girls and the screaming -- so what's wrong?
Lindsey already had one of her flashlights on, and I saw her other hand pointing to the small window in her room. Outside it, was Slappy, and he was laughing like crazy.
Slappy: I -- see -- you! YAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!
Me: (sarcastic) Oh, great! He found us already!
Lindsey: (worried) How come you don't sound so scared anymore?
Me: (sarcastic/ annoyed) Because I'm really getting tired of that piece of crap!
Slappy: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you kids can never hurt me!" OWAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAHH!!
Me: (sarcastic/ annoyed) And he never shuts-up, either!
Lindsey quickly handed me a flashlight and we left the bedroom, but not before I shut the door. I looked at the flashlight she gave me and frowned.
Me: (sarcastic) A Bratz flashlight? You're kidding, right?
Lindsey: Why? Do you want this Hello Kitty one, instead?
Me: (sarcastic) Both are bad enough for me.
I turned on my flashlight and shined it towards the patio door in the kitchen.
Me: I don't care where Slappy is, but we need to reach the power box, before he figures out how to blow fuses or something.
Lindsey: (looking outside a window) But it's raining out, Joey!
Me: Than we better hurry up and put our stuff on.
Just before we went downstairs, we heard a distant banging sound coming around Lindsey's room.
Me: Where's that coming from?...
Lindsey: (worried) It might be Slappy!
Me: Lets just go downstairs than.
Me and Lindsey walked quickly downstairs to put our shoes and jackets on. I also noticed that Kyle's sandals were still here. I'm not sure if she's still in the house, or hiding somewhere in the house...
Me: Lets go.
Lindsey nodded and we headed upstairs to the patio door. When I opened it, a huge gust of wind came in and blew water and stuff in our faces! Even though we didn't want to go outside in a storm like this, but we had too!
Me: You ready Linds?
Lindsey: No, but I'm going anyway!
The two of us walked out slowly onto the deck and I shut the door behind. We made our way to the small steps and went down them to the shed over to the bottom right corner of our yard. When we reached the shed entrance, I can see that it looked like someone was already here -- that someone had been in here recently.
Lindsey: (worried) Is Slappy in there?
Me: I don't care, lets just go in! Better in there than out here.
Usually it's very hard to open the shed doors, but since someone's been in here recently (I'm pretty sure that it's Slappy) the doors opened up easily. Me and Lindsey went inside quickly and closed the doors.
Lindsey: (whining) My pajamas are all wet!
Me: We have more things to worry about than that, Linds.
I walked to the back of the room and looked for the power box. I shined the flashlight on the switch and pushed it up, but the power did not come to the shed.
Me: (confused) What the heck? Lindsey, go see if the power came back to the house.
Lindsey opened the shed door and looked back over to the house.
Lindsey: (closing the door) The lights are back on, Joey.
Me: (confused) Than why...
I opened the lid to the power box to see what's wrong. When I shined the flashlight on the fuses, I saw that the one for the shed was missing! That's means none of the power will return to the lights or the machines!
I turned to Lindsey.
Me: There's a fuse missing here, and it goes to this shed. We need that fuse in order for my plan to work.
Lindsey: (confused) What plan?
Me: (ignoring Lindsey) Lets look down in the basement for it.
I closed the power box and headed downstairs, with Lindsey following behind slowly.
Lindsey: (nervous) Do you think we should go find Kyle?
Me: I don't even know where to look for her! If Slappy got to her, than she could be anywhere or anything!
Lindsey: (very worried) I hope not...
When we got down to the basement floor, my flashlight shined on something "glassy" on the ground. I went over to whatever it was and picked it up. It was a necklace with a black sword on it.
Me: (worried) T-this is Kyle's!
Lindsey: (worried) But where is she?!
Me: (sarcastic) Oh great, now we know that Slappy must of gotten to her, but we still need to try to find that missing fuse!
Lindsey: But... what if Slappy took it? What if he knew what you were going to do?
(voice that sounds very familiar) Heh heh heh...
From where the necklace was, me and Lindsey shined our flashlights just a couple more feet upwards and there he was: Slappy.
Slappy: I thought I should leave something of her behind... HEH HEH HEHEHEHH!
Lindsey: What did you do to Kyle?! Where is she?!
Slappy: I didn't want the girl to get any ideas, ssoooo... heh heh heh, I had to put her somewhere where she won't get in any trouble!
Slappy went into his pocket and brought out the missing fuse.
Me: (shocked) We need that fuse! Somehow I KNEW you took it!
Slappy: And now I'm gonna break it! MWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!
Me and Lindsey: NNNOOOOOOOO!!
I quickly put my flashlight down and threw the blanket I had over Slappy. Me and Lindsey ran over to him and held him down.
(Slappy: Hey, let me outta here!)
Me: Lindsey, I'll hold him here and get the fuse. I want you to go back in the house and look for Kyle; I'm pretty sure she's upstairs somewhere!
(Slappy: Wait till I get my hands on you! --)
Lindsey: (confused) Upstairs? Where --
Me: JUST GO!
Lindsey's Story
I quickly ran upstairs and out the shed and back into the house to look for Kyle.
Me: (to myself) Just what does Joey mean?... Where is she?...
I know I shouldn't walk around the house with me shoes on, but I needed to hurry so I can get back to Joey. I'm worried that Slappy might get him somehow!
When I walked into the kitchen I started to look everywhere for Kyle.
Me: (calling out) Kyle!! Kyle!!
I didn't hear anything.
Me: (calling out) KYLE, WHERE ARE YOU?!!
Suddenly I heard this little banging noise coming from somewhere. I followed the sound and it got louder by my bedroom and my parents room. I put my ear up to both doors and found out it's coming from my parents'. I opened the door and listened again to where it might be coming from; it was coming from the closet.
I slid the closet door open and I was hoping to find Kyle, but I didn't see her in there. I could still hear the noise though...
Me: Kyle?...
I noticed that my parents had allot of clothes pilled up in a corner of the closet; and it was moving a little! I went to the pile and threw the clothes in the air to see what's underneath them; and underneath all those clothes was Kyle! Her body was mostly all tied up, and even her mouth was covered. The banging noise was coming from Kyle banging her back against the wall.
I took the piece of cloth that was around her mouth.
Kyle: Thank GOSH, I thought no one was going to find me here!
Me: But... how did you get here?
Kyle: Slappy caught me at the shed and tied me up; how he got me from there to here, I have NO IDEA! Now can you untie me now? These ropes really hurt!
I untied Kyle and than we both got out of the closet. When we left my parents bedroom, we heard a cell phone ring. Me and Kyle looked at the family room table and saw that it was her phone that was ringing.
Kyle: (walking towards cell phone) It's probably my dad...
Kyle went to the table and answered her cell phone.
Kyle: (on cell phone) Hi dad, I... ... ... (shrieks)
Kyle suddenly dropped her cell phone and it hit the ground pretty hard. I walked over to her to see what was wrong.
Me: What's wrong? Did your dad say something bad?...
Kyle: (scared) No... no...
Me: (confused) What?...
I picked up the cell phone Kyle dropped and listened.
Me: (nervous) H-hello?...
Slappy: (on other end) Hi little girl, MWAH HA HAAAHH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!
Me: (screaming) AAAAAAAHH!!
Slappy: What's the matter, kid? You act like you haven't heard a dummy talk on the phone! HAH HAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!
Me: Where's Joey?!
Slappy: I guess you can say that he's MY dummy now! HEH HEH HEH HEEEHH!!
Me: NO!!
Slappy: A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!
Kyle grabbed the cell phone out of my hand and shut it off.
Kyle: You don't need to hear Slappy anymore...
Me: (worried) He's got Joey, Kyle; and Slappy turned him into a dummy!
Kyle: (sarcastic) Oh great...
Me: (worried) What are we gonna do?
Kyle thought... and suddenly she ran downstairs. A couple minutes later, she came up with her sandals on and her jacket. In her hands she had some blankets.
Kyle: We're gonna use these to trap Slappy.
Me: But... Joey tried that and -- now look what happened!
Kyle: Joey shouldn't have done it alone than... come on; we have to stop that dummy, and I don't mean Joey!